First off, the weather was supposed to be pretty bad. It turned out to be near perfect all day, cold but no wind and a grand total of about 5 minutes of rain. A huge thanks to Eric, Jerry and Jim (PSMBC) for holding this annual event for us.
Darin did his usual, make really little boats go surprisingly fast (N-1 and M-2 records).
The Putich team from UNW broke the long standing 1/8 Scale nitro record after more than a year worth of effort. About the best running winged modern boat I've ever seen. Way to go guys, you earned it
After all the drama following the LA SAWs, I left all my electrics at home. I built a new 30.5cc Zenoah, stuffed it in my Blazer Backlash and ran G-2 and GX-2 Gas Sport Hydro. The engine is a serious stump puller, too bad I completely screwed the boat up (a whole different story)
. It will go sub 20 once it's fixed.
Lohring wouldn't let me escape from a time trial without driving an electric. So, I got to drive his 22 year old Dave Franks Executone 1/8 converted to FE. Nice mild setup, should be very interesting with some tuning and a bunch more prop. Fun to drive a boat with as much history up here as this old beastie.
OK, here's the list of records from our day of play, old record in (XX.XX):
N-1 Mono 42.38 sec. (45.53)
N-1 Hydro 32.78 sec. (41.09)
M-2 Hydro 33.31 sec. (44.47)
1/8 Scale electric 25.88 sec. (open)
1/8 Scale nitro 23.84 sec. (24.17)
T Sport Hydro 25.4x sec. (open)
G-2 Gas Sport Hydro 21.91 sec. (open)
GX-2 Gas Sport Hydro 21.19 sec. (26.2)
